Cocoa Beach chef Lou Gerber has created Sicilian Tuna, which combines tuna and tomatoes in a sauce with capers, olives and pine nuts.

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Lou Gerber
| For FLORIDA TODAY

"Diet" is a word that's gotten a bad rap among most Americans. It's taken as synonymous with deprivation, the elimination of many foods we crave and love, with the objective of losing weight or improving health in some specific way.

It's emotionally painful and simply no fun.

While there is some truth in this embraced definition, "diet" also refers to the collection of food and drink one normally consumes. It's an inventory of intake, and does not necessarily refer to a modified and regulated regimen expressly for health's sake. ...